‘One of the most powerful and distinctive graphic novels to come out in a long time. I can't recommend this strongly enough – but brace yourself. It may make your skin crawl.’ – Dylan Horrocks
‘Completely bloody amazing. Dark and funny and sad and moving and totally original.’ – Stephen Collins, Winner of the 9th Art Award
‘Brilliant. Clever, inventive and beautifully written.’ – Sarah Lightman, LDComics co-founder and author of The Book of Sarah
‘Sublimely creepy... The matter of fact delivery, through both word and image, works like a gift.’ – Ed Hillyer
‘Extraordinary emphasis on doing and making almost in real time.’ – Sacha Craddock
‘I enjoyed his weirdness.’ – Will Self
‘Utterly bizarre and quite brilliant.’ – Steve Bell
‘A masterpiece of comic timing and an extraordinary feat of imagination and creativity.’ – Pamreader
‘You know a story is great when you want to believe it's real, and I do believe this is real. Also I'm a big fan of nostalgia, I lap it up, and this book is piled high with it.’ – Joe Decie, Comics and Cola
‘All 208 pages of this ominous tale are spectacular, mixing dark lino cuts with embroidery and hand-written text. Pack away the craft materials and get reading.’ – It’s Nice That
‘Brookes has created something truly incredible with his first book... The Black Project is genuinely unlike anything else happening in the graphic medium at the moment.’ – We Love This Book
‘Brilliantly excruciating.’ – Nicola Streeten
‘If you’re in any way interested in alternative comics, and or contemporary textile crafts I urge you to look this one out.’ – Cherry and Cinnamon
‘Like Cath Kidston embroidering for David Lynch.’ – Teddy Jamieson, Herald
‘Very clever, packed with lots of detail, and incredibly well executed.’ – Page 45
‘Exquisite, excruciating and exceptional... a landmark, once read, not easily forgotten.
Paul Gravett
‘Clandestine first love with a papier mache twist is the order of the day in this remarkable debut... the perfect entry point into the wicked whimsy of [Brookes’s] creative mind.’ – Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier
‘You could follow every detail of the story if you only heard the words, but you’d be missing the half the pointwork.’ – Andrew Moreton, Comiczine FA
‘Brookes plays on that [creeping horror] feeling, adding dark humour and deadpan first-person voiceover to create something really unsettling, genuinely creepy.’ – Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet
‘Painstaking and wonderfully original.’ – Paul Ashley Brown, Comics Bits Online